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Tumor origin detection with tissue-specific miRNA and DNA methylation markers

Tang, W; Wan, S; Yang, Z; Teschendorff, AE; Zou, Q; (2018) Tumor origin detection with tissue-specific miRNA and DNA methylation markers. Bioinformatics , 34 (3) pp. 398-406. 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx622. Green open access

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Abstract

MOTIVATION: A clear identification of the primary site of tumor is of great importance to the next targeted site-specific treatments and could efficiently improve patient‘s overall survival. Even though many classifiers based on gene expression had been proposed to predict the tumor primary, only a few studies focus on using DNA methylation (DNAm) profiles to develop classifiers, and none of them compares the performance of classifiers based on different profiles. RESULTS: We introduced novel selection strategies to identify highly tissue-specific CpG sites and then used the random forest approach to construct the classifiers to predict the origin of tumors. We also compared the prediction performance by applying similar strategy on miRNA expression profiles. Our analysis indicated that these classifiers had an accuracy of 96.05% (Maximum–Relevance–Maximum–Distance: 90.02–99.99%) or 95.31% (principal component analysis: 79.82–99.91%) on independent DNAm datasets, and an overall accuracy of 91.30% (range 79.33–98.74%) on independent miRNA test sets for predicting tumor origin. This suggests that our feature selection methods are very effective to identify tissue-specific biomarkers and the classifiers we developed can efficiently predict the origin of tumors. We also developed a user-friendly webserver that helps users to predict the tumor origin by uploading miRNA expression or DNAm profile of their interests. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The webserver, and relative data, code are accessible at http://server.malab.cn/MMCOP/.

Type: Article
Title: Tumor origin detection with tissue-specific miRNA and DNA methylation markers
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx622
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx622
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10043145
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